Kuiper himself correctly located early crash sites and even the eventually landing site of Apollo 11, even despite NASA claiming different landing locations. With this atlas and the later, even more detailed 4th atlas, Kuiper’s team helped NASA to locate smooth landing sites for lunar probes. They then photographed the sides of the sphere to provide a non-distorted view of the Moon’s edges, and published these in a third Moon atlas, aptly named the Rectified Lunar Atlas. They projected their telescope photos onto a large white sphere so that the distorted edges were stretched back to a normal scale on the sides of the sphere. This was actually a fairly serious problem, as they couldn’t accurately map significant portions of the visible surface of the Moon. Although their telescope image quality had improved, they were still only viewing the Moon from one side and producing 2-dimensional photographs that distorted the further edges of the Moon’s surface. Over the next few years, Kuiper’s team started to image the Moon with custom-built telescopes to generate the best quality images.
America announced their goal to send men to the Moon, and they needed a map first. However in 1961, the spotlight was suddenly thrown onto their work. They published two atlases of these photographs and were working steadily to improve their knowledge as best as they could. Kuiper’s team worked with the best telescope images and photographs of the Moon that they could source from other observatories. However, that was enough to get started and progress from the rough, hand-drawn maps that were our sole knowledge of the Moon’s surface. Back in 1955 he’d asked other astronomers to help him in his project to map the Moon and received only one response, the many others attending saw the Moon as a hindrance to other astronomy (being a bright object in the sky) rather than as a subject for serious study. Professor Gerard Kuiper was one of very few people who was studying the Moon’s surface at the time. The big, obvious craters and mountains were well-known from telescope images, but as far as detailed topography, very little work had been put in at all. However, very little has been mentioned about a very important step that needed to happen beforehand … making a map of where they could land, and what it might look like.Īfter all, you want to pick a fairly flat sort of spot to land on, without any hills or valleys. Much has been said about the astronauts, the research teams, the technology, the equipment, even the methods of televising the whole affair. All local pickups are subject to 7% sales tax.In this past weekend, the world has remembered the first men who walked on the Moon 50 years ago. The winning bidder can also pick up this item at our store in Colchester, Vermont. Please check all of the available shipping methods and costs prior to bidding.
All local pickups are subject to 6% Vermont state sales tax. The winning bidder can pick up this item at our store in Colchester, Vermont to save on shipping charges. We have a low opening bid and no reserve price so don't miss your chance to win! The box has scuffs and wear including some peeling and tears in the outer material, most notably in the right front corner. Please see the photos below to see everything that is included, and contact us with any questions before bidding. The photos are in very good condition overall with typical signs of handling, primarily on the first ten sheets. They come in the original box with the accompanying booklet from the University of Chicago Press. The atlas consists of 230 sheets, with 176 of them folded in four. This listing is for a Photographic Lunar Atlas Based on Photographs taken at the Mount Wilson, Lick, Pic du Midi, McDonald and Yerkes Observatories.
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